Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] is that [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In the process of negotiating conflict all the participants help to set the framework of ideas within which conflict is managed and a crucial dimension of this framework is that the Japanese people are characteristically said to defer to the national consensus .
2 A further advantage is that the higher new salary will form the basis for future overtime payment calculations whereas Computer Technology Payments were excluded .
3 What must be clear in a transcript of this kind is that a great deal of interpretation by the analyst has gone on before the reader encounters this ‘ data ’ .
4 A further difficulty is that the current legislation provides no means for combating the growth of the tacit or informal collusion which has come to replace the formal agreements of earlier years .
5 Another advantage is that a hooked bream can be persuaded — with a little not-too-gentle pulling and guidance — to fight it out in the shallower water and therefore not disturb the remainder of the feeding shoal .
6 Another advantage is that the open nature of the meeting means that it is less easy to split workers and carers .
7 The importance of this technique is that the young child experiences stimulation of the normal feeding and sucking patterns which prevents reluctance to eat once the operation is completed and the child has recovered .
8 The interesting part is that the measuring fibre does not need to be part of the current carrying circuit , giving a high degree of electrical isolation .
9 For if one of the main results of this election is that the Labour Party ditches Mr Kinnock as leader in favour of Mr Smith , it could well be a case of reculer pour mieux sauter — a kind of Pyrrhic defeat .
10 Another difficulty is that a third of Asian patients disappeared from contact with services , and although this was not considered statistically significant , in percentage terms they had the highest attrition rate of the three groups .
11 Another difficulty is that the geological maps of Britain are out of date .
12 The danger with trying to shoehorn the IRA into this category is that the criminal justice system has had to be stretched almost to breaking point to accommodate them — Diplock courts , the abolition of the right of silence , rigged inquests , detention without trial , and so on .
13 The reason for the need for this rigorous honesty is that a continuing sense of guilt and remorse will reduce the sense of self-worth and well-being .
14 The main reason for this study is that the future economic development of the Soviet Republics depends very largely on trade in order to provide the currency for food provision and modernisation .
15 Apart from the use of quarterly data , the main difference in this study is that the current monetary shock is included in the output equation rather than being incorporated in the error term , in what — ADD demonstrate — is an asymptotically efficient estimation procedure .
16 The clear implication of this study is that the biggest response of northern hemisphere temperatures ‘ should ’ have been in June , two months after El Chichón 's eruption , and that is just what the temperature record shows .
17 The postulate put forward in this study is that the potential meaning of to before the infinitive is more abstract than that found in the spatial use of the preposition , and can be stated as follows : the possibility of a movement from a point in time conceived as a before-position to another point in time which marks the end-point of the movement and which represents an after-position with respect to the first .
18 One consequence of the primacy of the metric equation is that the Gaussian curvature is a function of the coefficients in the metric equation .
19 Another bonus is that the lower vantage point from the tops of these smaller hills , often with uncluttered surroundings , can occasionally provide more impressive views than from their big brothers .
20 The proof of this theorem is that every such program can be transformed to x — IF/ALT using the said laws .
21 The effect of this rule is that the fixed percentage or the amount of the notional pool is specified in the scheme , but the amount of the distributable pool can be determined only after a profit period has ended .
22 Indeed one of the major conclusions to be drawn from the historical and sociological discussion in this chapter is that a proper analysis of the operation of ‘ race ’ as an element in British society and education requires an understanding of its interrelationship with the structured and cultural divisions which derive from class and gender relations , in the context of an understanding of Britain 's past imperial domination and its continuing legacies .
23 ( a ) The principal difference between this offence and the others in this chapter is that the accused is guilty of making off whether or not he deceived anyone .
24 The worst things about this attitude is that the western method of development is ’ best ’ and the constant subtle racism .
25 The other most obvious difference between the researcher and the ordinary new member of a social group is that the former must keep detailed and accurate notes and records of everything observed and every impression gained .
26 The non-response is likely to be non-random so that bias is introduced ; a further complication is that the desired respondent may pass the form to someone he or she thinks is more interested .
27 A second consequence of the more explosive nature of a Surtseyan eruption is that the pyroclastic material gets scattered much more widely .
28 The broader inference is that the MARID rocks , related metasomites , megacrysts and polymict xenoliths found at Kimberley all formed in the upper mantle beneath the Kaapvaal craton over a short interval coincident with kimberlite generation and eruption .
29 However , one thing worth mentioning at this point is that the larger parts are not always a guarantee of an agent 's interest — quite often big roles will attract attention , but a student who has been very well cast in a smaller role may hit the mark just as effectively .
30 He added : ‘ A further distinction is that the new age traveller tends to seek a high level of musical enjoyment , enhanced by stimulants such as alcohol , soft drugs or designer drugs . ’
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